﻿ReadMe file for Data Repository relating to Crona et al, 2021_Anthropocene reality of financial risk


Supp_Exp_Procedures_Anthropocene_reality_of_financial_risk.pdf

This document outlines the data and analysis for comparison of deforestation risk and environmental ESG scores.
It also outlines the methods and assumptions used in estimating the figures/numbers presented in Figure 5 (Overview and comparison of sustainable and mainstream capital flows in 2019)


Deforestation_risk_ESG_data.csv

Contains the data used to run rank correlations of ESG environmental pillar scores against Forest500 company deforestation assessments. Data from Refinitiv Eikon was downloaded in Jan 2021 and deforestation risk scores downloaded from Forest500 in Oct, 2020
The year of assessment is 2019

The dataset includes the following columns; where () indicates source
* indicates variables used in analysis for this paper

Company 	Company name
ISIN	International Securities Identification Number
TR.ENVIRONMENTPILLARSCORE.fperiod:fiscal (financial) year of reported information
TR.ENVIRONMENTPILLARSCORE (%):The environmental pillar measures a company's impact on living and non-living natural systems, including the air, land and water, as well as complete ecosystems. It reflects how well a company uses best management practices to avoid environmental risks and capitalize on environmental opportunities in order to generate long term shareholder value. It is reported as a score. 
* ENV PILLAR SCORE rank:calculated by us, based on total environmental pillar score
TR.ENVIRONMENTPILLARSCOREGRADE:The environmental pillar measures a company's impact on living and non-living natural systems, including the air, land and water, as well as complete ecosystems. It reflects how well a company uses best management practices to avoid environmental risks and capitalize on environmental opportunities in order to generate long term shareholder value. It is reported as a grade
TR.TRESGRESOURCEUSESCORE:Resource use category score reflects a company's performance and capacity to reduce the use of materials, energy or water, and to find more eco-efficient solutions by improving supply chain management.
TR.TRESGEMISSIONSSCORE:Emission category score measures a company's commitment and effectiveness towards reducing environmental emission in the production and operational processes.
TR.TRESGINNOVATIONSCORE:Environmental innovation category score reflects a company's capacity to reduce the environmental costs and burdens for its customers, and thereby creating new market opportunities through new environmental technologies and processes or eco-designed products.
TR.TRESGSCORE:Refinitiv ESG score is an overall company score based on the self-reported information in the environmental, social and corporate governance pillars. 
ESG SCORE rank:calculated by us, based on total ESG score
TR.TRESGCSCORE:Refinitiv ESG Combined Score is an overall company score based on the reported information in the environmental, social and corporate governance pillars (ESG Score) with an ESG Controversies overlay. 
TR.TRESGCCONTROVERSIESSCORE:ESG controversies category score measures a company's exposure to environmental, social and governance controversies and negative events reflected in global media.
Total deforestation score (%):equals the overall Forest 500 approach (total score) + commodity score (avg across all commodities)
* Total deforestation rank:calculated by us, based on total deforestation score

Software: The analysis was done using Microsoft Excel 2019. 


BIS_Debt_securities_table-c1-2019_Q4.tab

This document includes the data used to estimate the outstanding value of Total (global) Debt Securities at end of 2019 (Q4). Data from the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) Statistics Explorer (specifically Table C1 “Summary of debt securities outstanding, Q4, 2019”) was downloaded in Feb 2021 from the URL: < https://stats.bis.org/statx/srs/table/c1?p=20194&c >

For a summary of the process and full details on the methodology of estimating the Total (global) Debt Securities, see 'Supp_Exp_Procedures_Anthropocene_reality_of_financial_risk.pdf'
All values are in billions of US dollars. 

The dataset includes the following columns () indicates source
* indicates variables used in analysis for this paper

Country
* TOTAL_DEBT_SECURITIES (calculated based on method described in 'Supp_Exp_Procedures_Anthropocene_reality_of_financial_risk´ file)
* TDS_Total (BIS)
TDS_Financial_corporations (BIS)
TDS_Non-financial_corporations (BIS)
TDS_General_government (BIS)
* DDS_Total(BIS)
DDS_Financial_corporations (BIS)
DDS_Non-financial_corporations (BIS)
DDS_General_government (BIS)
* IDS_Total (BIS)
IDS_Financial_corporations_Total (BIS)
IDS_Financial_corporations_Banks (BIS)
IDS_Non-financial_corporations (BIS)
IDS_General_government (BIS)

Software: The analysis was done using Microsoft Excel (Microsoft 365 MSO)



